Unbelievable Headlines

TWO NUCLEAR SUBS COLLIDE IN ATLANTIC…WHAT?  Let me read that again… Nope that’s what it said.  How can two, very large submerged objects that supposedly have sonar and radar and everything other tracking technology under the sun miss another large object right next to them and run into each other? 

It happened earlier this month between British and French NUCLEAR SUBMARINES.  Both carrying Weapons of Mass Destruction… Now, I realize the North Atlantic is a bit cold and the water a bit murky, but what the…?  I don’t care that they were going at “very low speed” and the damage was minimal.  What if they hadn’t been going slow or bumped into each other at different angles than they did?  Those suckers carry Titan NUCLEAR missiles for God’s sake. 

I picture a scenario where an accident, similar but with a different outcome, triggers something really awful… Like Russia thinking the crash and resulting explosion of armed missiles was a bit close to their territorial waters so they shoot their own nuclear missals – of course they do this before the British and French can say it was all a mistake and now it’s too late – WWIII.  Okay, I’m probably being a bit melodramatic, and I realize the British and French are not at war this century, but still.

Russia isn’t that stable these days… Come to think of it neither are the North Koreans, most of South America, and, let’s not forget, the Middle Eastern countries.  Wouldn’t take much to set any of them off.